Appleseed: A Novel

"This novel of climate collapse presents a triptych of tales: In the first, two brothers walk the American Midwest in the late 18th century, planting apple orchards everywhere they go. In the second, set in the near future, climate change has become endemic, disastrous, unfixable – except, maybe, for the efforts of a single, massive global corporation with plans to resettle half of America and cloud over the abandoned West to counteract global warming. In the third, a recycled cyborg clone lives and dies over and over again, exploring the depths of a glacier in its attempt to discover what happened to humanity. And while this might seem like standard dystopian fare, Matt Bell uses an odd mix of magical realism, pioneer mythology and weird science to twist his tale in unusual directions and imbue Appleseed with fauns, nano-pollinators, magic apples and a strain of dreamy strangeness that makes it a meditative thriller with an ethical heart."